praxis, indeed! :-) you forgot 'trope'. i love the po-co-po-mo guys' lingo. almost indistinguishable from english.
just like the communists' 'bourgeois' and 'revisionist' and other turgidities. these are even better in malayalam: "moorachi" sounds so... so disgusting! "thiruthal-vadi" sounds like something you want to crush under your heel.
and why is it that people can't believe i am subaltern? i am, too, dammit!
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From: K
From: K
| Mr. Srinivasan, As you are aware, the Pagan scriptures exhort adherents to perceive the deity everywhere and in all beings, e.g. Bhagavad-gita 5:18. However, methinks this is a dangerous thing to do, especially if indulged in before one's notion of deity and powers of discrimination have appropriately matured and crystallized or if you happened to choose the wrong type of Ishtadevata to start with. Recently the Congress demonstrated the truth of my assertion by seeing their Ishtadevata - Joseph Goebbels - in others. As you are aware, inspiration from this Ishtadevata of theirs is the reason why our students are fed the following sutras with their mother's milk, as it were: 1. India was never a nation until Lord Mountbatten gave diksha to Nehru. 2. All Indian children need a loving 'chacha' and that happens to be Nehru, who was allegedly immeasurably fond of the urchins. 3. What Nehru did not discover about India is not worth discovering. 4. The Republic of India is the 'Gift of Nehru' (with apologies to Herodotus). After six decades of devoted tapas and sadhana (not to mention saguNopasana and namajapa) dedicated to the aforementioned Teutonic devata, the Congress has graduated from the purely 'family-centric' stage to the 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam' stage, and the resulting enlightenment is causing it to perceive its Ishtadevata in other beings as well! 'Incisive analysis of contemporaneous religious praxis in a subaltern mode' - don't you think? Sincerely, |
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Is it possible that perception of the deity in all beings is more so perception of the internal physical beauty of all beings?
Rather than in measurable human faith or moral guidance could it simply be the principles of the universe that we all share and are all a part of?
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